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Figure masculine debout avec bâton

Est du Congo / Ouest de la Tanzanie, Lac Tanganyika, Tabwa, Ijiji

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
American Private Collection H: 41 cm 8000 EUR
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wood, blackened, on stool-like base, rest.

Roberts & Maurer attributed a stylistically comparable figure to a Tabwa workshop, which they located in Tanzania, on the east side of Lake Tanganyika, in the area of Ujiji (cf. Roberts & Maurer, 1985, p. 79, ill. 55). A subgroup of the Tabwa, who became known as the Ijiji, settled here.

In the Weltmuseum in Vienna there is a group of figures collected by the German Navy First Lieutenant Wunderlich, who was stationed in the Lake Tanganyika/ Lake Kivu region between 1914 and 1916. They were also located among the Tabwa or Ijij (AHDRC 0165985).


Roberts, Allen F. & Evan M. Maurer (ed.), Tabwa, Washington D.C. 1985, S. 79, ill. 55 Plankensteiner, Barbara, Austausch. Kunst aus dem südlichen Afrika um 1900, Wien 1998, p. 125, ill. 84-88